Games like Astro Colony
If Astro Colony is your kind of game, the closest matches are Satisfactory, Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure and Factorio — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chill, cozy and relaxing. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Astro Colony is a space-themed simulation and strategy game from Terad Games where players establish colonies across an endless procedural universe. The core gameplay centers on building automation systems with conveyor belts and logical blocks to manage resource logistics and production chains. Players can capture asteroids manually or automate the process entirely, creating intricate automation chains to support their growing colonies. Reviewers highlight the deep satisfaction of crafting and automation systems, and players describe the experience as relaxing and whimsical. The game offers long sessions suited to a chill difficulty level, with multi-universe progression keeping exploration fresh across runs. Currently priced at $16.99 USD, it holds an 82% positive rating from over 2,500 Steam reviews and runs playably on Steam Deck.
About Astro Colony: Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Players who liked Astro Colony also play
Steam players who put hours into Astro Colony also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Top pick for Astro Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astro Colony.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares resource logistics and a chill mood with Astro Colony.
Second-strongest match for Astro Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astro Colony.
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares automation chains with Astro Colony.
Third-strongest match for Astro Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astro Colony.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Occupy Mars: The Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Astro Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astro Colony.
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
shapez 2 - Factory
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Astro Colony.
Ranked #5 for Astro Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astro Colony.
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Captain of Industry
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Astro Colony.
Ranked #6 for Astro Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astro Colony.
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
The Crust
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Astro Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Astro Colony.
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
InfraSpace
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Astro Colony fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astro Colony.
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
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Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Astro Colony cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astro Colony.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Raft
WHY THIS
Shares a chill mood with Astro Colony.
Reviewers of Astro Colony cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astro Colony.
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Astro Colony cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Astro Colony.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares automation chains with Astro Colony.
Reviewers of Astro Colony cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astro Colony.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Starbase
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Astro Colony cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Simulation with Astro Colony.
Starbase is a hybrid voxel/vertex-based space MMO with a fully destructible and infinitely expanding universe, with a focus on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Astro Colony at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under Astro Colony on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astro Colony.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Astro Colony on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Colony.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Astro Colony on Steam right now. Shares Action with Astro Colony.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Astro Colony on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Colony.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Astro Colony on Steam right now. Shares Action with Astro Colony.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Astro Colony.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Astro Colony.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Colony.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Astro Colony.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Astro Colony.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Astro Colony.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Astro Colony.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Astro Colony.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astro Colony.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure
WHY THIS
Shares resource logistics and a chill mood with Astro Colony.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astro Colony.
Oddsparks is a blend of automation and real-time strategy for both the die-hard fans of the automation genre and the automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks!
Factorio
WHY THIS
Shares automation chains with Astro Colony.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Astro Colony.
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Frequently asked about Astro Colony
- Does Astro Colony run on Steam Deck?
- Astro Colony is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Astro Colony cost?
- Astro Colony is listed on Steam at 16.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Astro Colony have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Astro Colony supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Astro Colony?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Astro Colony are Satisfactory, Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure, Factorio.
- Who developed Astro Colony?
- Astro Colony was developed by Terad Games.
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